# Restaurant Authenticity FAILS

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurant-authenticity-fails/838348>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 8, 2019, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurant-authenticity-fails/838348 "2019-08-08T14:37:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurant-authenticity-fails/838348/121 "2019-08-21T06:27:27Z")

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> [@Asuka](#):
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> In the Southwest the long-running joke I’ve heard comedians make is that most Chinese restaurants are staffed entirely by Mexicans, who can make the food just as good.

Heh… there’s a very nice Chinese restaurant near our house. It’s been in business for decades (the owners’ granddaughter was in my daughter’s class in high school).

Half the staff is Chinese, half are Hispanic.

And speaking of authenticity fails: we have several times hosted students from China for a few weeks in the summer. Of course we always take the to this place - not to show “see, we have ‘Chinese’ food too!” but to show them what Americans know of as “Chinese” food.

There’s very little on the menu that they would get to eat at home, for sure.

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**Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurant-authenticity-fails/838348/122 "2019-08-21T08:12:53Z")

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> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#):
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> Ahem. Barbecue chicken pizza is a THING in California

In the Philly area, where we’re quite snobbish about our pizza and “standard” pizza is pretty much the same as what they have in NY, lots of mom and pop authentic Italian pizza joints have things like barbecue chicken and buffalo chicken pizza on their menus. I suspect the same is true in NY.

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